That's an Al of a Lot of Power

Feb 28, 07:35 AM

Current Headlines: By RYAN PARRY US Correspondent

GREEN campaigner Al Gore has been accused of hypocrisy after it was revealed he uses 20 times more power at home than the US national average.

The former vice-president inspired and starred in climate change movie An Inconvenient Truth, which won Best Documentary at the Oscars.

Yet he lives in a 20-room mansion in Nashville, Tennessee, with heated pool, electric gates and gas lamps which run up power bills of pounds 15,000 a year.

Public utility records show the Gore family used 221,000 kilowatt- hours of power in 2006. The national average is 10,656 kilowatt- hours.

Drew Johnson, of Tennessee's Centre for Policy Research, which found the data, said: "He tells others how to live but is not following his own rules."

A spokesman for Mr Gore said that both he and his wife Tipper worked from home and were making it more energy-efficient with measures including solar panels.

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